--- title: Ben Nevis in Scotland is the highest mountain in the UK at 1,345 met… — The British Isles and the United Kingdom · tree and pragmatics description: Ben Nevis in Scotland is the highest mountain in the UK at 1,345 metres, Yr Wyddfa, also called Snowdon, is the highest in Wales at 1,085 metres, and Scafell Pike is the highest in England at 978 metres; the mountains are in the north and west, where the rocks are hard and old and wear away slowly, --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/8-the-british-isles-and-the-united-kingdom/11/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Geography](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/) / [The British Isles and the United Kingdom](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/8-the-british-isles-and-the-united-kingdom/) / 11 # The British Isles and the United Kingdom, sentence 11 Ben Nevis in Scotland is the highest mountain in the UK at 1,345 metres, Yr Wyddfa, also called Snowdon, is the highest in Wales at 1,085 metres, and Scafell Pike is the highest in England at 978 metres; the mountains are in the north and west, where the rocks are hard and old and wear away slowly, while the south-east is softer, lower land. **Who acts:** Ben Nevis, Scafell Pike, mountains, rocks, south east · **What happens:** be, call, wear away · **To what, where:** highest mountain, Wyddfa, Wales, England, north · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «The British Isles and the United Kingdom» of the geography course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ben Nevis, Scafell Pike, mountains, rocks), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:geography:008-the-british-isles-and-the-united-kingdom.lesson:11 # text = Ben Nevis in Scotland is the highest mountain in the UK at 1,345 metres, Yr Wyddfa, also called Snowdon, is the highest in Wales at 1,085 metres, and Scafell Pike is the highest in England at 978 metres; the mountains are in the north and west, where the rocks are hard and old and wear away slowly, while the south-east is softer, lower land. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = geography # lesson = 008-the-british-isles-and-the-united-kingdom.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R1-cc-next ×4, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Ben Ben PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 Nevis Nevis PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 4 Scotland Scotland PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 5 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 highest high ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 8 amod _ _ 8 mountain mountain NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 UK UK PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 12 at at ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 1,345 1,345 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 14 nummod _ _ 14 metres metre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nmod _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 Yr year NOUN NN Abbr=Yes|Number=Sing 17 nmod:desc _ _ 17 Wyddfa Wyddfa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 also also ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 20 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 17 acl _ _ 21 Snowdon Snowdon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 xcomp _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 23 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 highest high ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 8 conj _ _ 26 in in ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 Wales Wales PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 28 at at ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 1,085 1,085 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 30 nummod _ _ 30 metres metre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obl _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=25:cc 33 Scafell Scafell PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 compound _ _ 34 Pike Pike PROPN NNP Number=Sing 37 nsubj _ _ 35 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 37 cop _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 highest high ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 25 conj _ _ 38 in in ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 England England PROPN NNP Number=Sing 37 obl _ _ 40 at at ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 978 978 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 42 nummod _ _ 42 metres metre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 obl _ _ 43 ; ; PUNCT , _ 49 punct _ _ 44 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 45 mountains mountain NOUN NNS Number=Plur 49 nsubj _ _ 46 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 49 cop _ _ 47 in in ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 48 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 49 det _ _ 49 north north NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 parataxis _ _ 50 and and CCONJ CC _ 51 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=49:cc 51 west west NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 conj _ _ 52 , , PUNCT , _ 57 punct _ _ 53 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 57 advmod _ _ 54 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 55 det _ _ 55 rocks rock NOUN NNS Number=Plur 57 nsubj _ _ 56 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 57 cop _ _ 57 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 49 acl:relcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=49:advcl 58 and and CCONJ CC _ 59 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=57:cc 59 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 57 conj _ _ 60 and and CCONJ CC _ 61 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=57:cc 61 wear wear VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 57 conj _ _ 62 away away ADV RB _ 61 advmod _ _ 63 slowly slowly ADV RB _ 61 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=62:advmod 64 , , PUNCT , _ 71 punct _ _ 65 while while SCONJ IN _ 71 mark _ _ 66 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 69 det _ _ 67 south south NOUN NN Number=Sing 69 compound _ _ 68 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 67 punct _ _ 69 east east NOUN NN Number=Sing 71 nsubj _ _ 70 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 71 cop _ _ 71 softer soft ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 49 advcl _ _ 72 , , PUNCT , _ 74 punct _ _ 73 lower low ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 74 amod _ _ 74 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 71 obl _ _ 75 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=42:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | Ben Nevis and Wyddfa Yr | | | the highest mountain | | in the UK; at 1,345 metres | tree rules | | 2 | **call** | participle | | Wyddfa Yr *not said here* | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** | present | Ben Nevis and Wyddfa Yr *not said here* | | | Wales | | at 1,085 metres; high *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **is** | present | Scafell Pike | | | England | | at 978 metres; high *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **is** | present | the mountains | | | the north and west | | | tree rules | | 6 | **is** | present | the rocks | | | | | hard *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **be** | | the rocks *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **wear away** | present | the rocks *not said here* | | | | | away, slowly *property* | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent | | 9 | **is** | present | the south east | | | | | lower land *obl*; soft *property* | tree rules | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:geography:008-the-british-isles-and-the-united-kingdom.lesson:11`. **The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R1-cc-next ×4, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence. 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